Reading group voting thread

This is the thread for picking readings for our fortnightly meetups. Suggest articles in the comments, including a link and a one sentence summary, then vote on your favorites! Feel free to post individual articles, or sets of 2-3 if they should be read together. Every week before reading group we'll select the top 5 and post them to the Facebook group.

The previous thread got archived due to being 6 months old. Feel free to copy over suggestions from that.

In Japan, people keep moving to Tokyo after being raised and educated elsewhere. So Tokyo reaps the benefits of public spending in not-Tokyo. Not-Tokyo wanted to capture some of those. The hometown tax was a way of implementing that, with some unintended side effects.

"...By contrast, I think mastery looks much more like teaching mode — it looks like someone operating in a context where their knowledge and their skills are not the focus, but are just unconscious assumptions in the background."

If you find yourself wondering, or just feeling, "Why is everyone I wind up dealing with an asshole?" you might want to consider the possibility that you have set up an asshole filter. Asshole filters are an extremely common phenomenon, and an extremely common problem.

An asshole filter happens when one has set of norms which results in one primarily, or at least disproportionately, coming into contact with assholes.